The Shipping News

Name: The Shipping News
Genre: Drama
Released: 2002-01-18
Duration: 1 h 51 min
Rating: 6.80
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore

– An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to rec..

Type:

Movie

Rating:

6.80 / 10

Duration:

One Hour and 51 Minutes

Release Year:

2001

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Styles:

Dramatic, Melancholic, Emotional, Bleak, Touching, Sentimental, Realistic, Captivating, Serious, Atmospheric

Story Timeline:

21st Century, Contemporary

Producing Country:

USA

Filming Locations:

Atlantic Ocean, New Jersey, Canada

Genre:

Drama

The Shipping News (2001) - Trailer

Release Date:

18 Jan 2002

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:

R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

The Shipping News

Directed by:

Lasse Hallström

Story Written By:

Robert Nelson Jacobs, Annie Proulx

Main Actors:

Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore

Plot:

An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey...

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 11 nominations.

Gross profit:

$11,405,825

Production Company:

Miramax Films

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database:

6.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

55%

Metacritic: